Re: OT: Compatibility Issues With Windows Files

2011-10-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 19:45 -0500, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Ralf Mardorf > wrote: > > Beside the space issue, you also might take care about globbing. > > If you e.g. "cp *" you won't copy hidden files of the directory, but all > > inside folders of the directory.

Re: Compatibility Issues With Windows Files

2011-10-04 Thread Jason White
Dan Ritter wrote: >On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 01:32:39PM -0400, RiverWind wrote: >> When attempting to extract "rar" files in either Linux or Unix, the >> file naming protocol seems to be a very crucial issue. To wit, >> should a file be fraught with open spaces, many Unix and Linux >> utilities wil

Re: OT: Compatibility Issues With Windows Files

2011-10-04 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Beside the space issue, you also might take care about globbing. > If you e.g. "cp *" you won't copy hidden files of the directory, but all > inside folders of the directory. If you e.g. "rm *", you'll delete all > files, including hidden files

OT: Compatibility Issues With Windows Files

2011-10-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Beside the space issue, you also might take care about globbing. If you e.g. "cp *" you won't copy hidden files of the directory, but all inside folders of the directory. If you e.g. "rm *", you'll delete all files, including hidden files. Regarding to the mail addresses I suspect you're using bra

Re: Compatibility Issues With Windows Files

2011-10-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 22:48 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 13:34 -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 01:32:39PM -0400, RiverWind wrote: > > > When attempting to extract "rar" files in either Linux or Unix, the > > > file naming protocol seems to be a very crucia

Re: Compatibility Issues With Windows Files

2011-10-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 13:34 -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 01:32:39PM -0400, RiverWind wrote: > > When attempting to extract "rar" files in either Linux or Unix, the > > file naming protocol seems to be a very crucial issue. To wit, > > should a file be fraught with open spaces,

Re: Compatibility Issues With Windows Files

2011-10-04 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 04 Oct 2011, RiverWind wrote: > When attempting to extract "rar" files in either Linux or Unix, the > file naming protocol seems to be a very crucial issue. To wit, This is incorrect. > should a file be fraught with open spaces, many Unix and Linux > utilities will not work, because it se

Re: Compatibility Issues With Windows Files

2011-10-04 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 01:32:39PM -0400, RiverWind wrote: > When attempting to extract "rar" files in either Linux or Unix, the > file naming protocol seems to be a very crucial issue. To wit, > should a file be fraught with open spaces, many Unix and Linux > utilities will not work, because it se

Compatibility Issues With Windows Files

2011-10-04 Thread RiverWind
Hey There, When attempting to extract "rar" files in either Linux or Unix, the file naming protocol seems to be a very crucial issue. To wit, should a file be fraught with open spaces, many Unix and Linux utilities will not work, because it seems that MS-Windows allows for blank spaces within fi